Augustus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin Augustus, from augustus (“majestic, venerable”). Doublet of august and August. === Pronunciation === enPR: ô-gŭsʹtəs, IPA(key): /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/, /əˈɡʌstəs/ Hyphenation: Au‧gus‧tus === Proper noun === Augustus The Roman emperor Augustus, also called Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.); heir to Julius Caesar A male given name from Latin, risen in popularity since the 18th century. ==== Synonyms ==== (Emperor Augustus): Octavian, Octavius ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Afrikaans == === Pronunciation === === Noun === Augustus (plural Augustusmaande) August ==== See also ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === AUG, AUGG, AUGGG === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [au̯ˈɡʊs.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [au̯ˈɡus.tus] === Etymology 1 === From augustus (“majestic, venerable”), originally a word of religious use, which was given as a title to the emperor Augustus. The month Sextīlis was renamed after the emperor Caesar Augustus. ==== Proper noun ==== Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension Augustus; a Roman agnomen, or "nickname" Augustus, the Roman emperor ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun, singular only. ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== ==== Adjective ==== Augustus (feminine Augusta, neuter Augustum); first/second-declension adjective Augustan (pertaining to the Emperor Augustus) imperial, royal of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar Synonym: Sextīlis ===== Usage notes ===== In Latin, the month names are used as adjectives. In the Classical period, this adjective modifies a noun identifying a particular day, from which the date was reckoned. In Medieval Latin and later periods, the adjective modifies a numeral for the day of the month. === Etymology 2 === Ellipsis of Augustus mēnsis m or mēnsis Augustus m (“Augustan month, month of August”). ==== Proper noun ==== Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar ===== Descendants ===== Latin: agustus (see there for further descendants) Unsorted borrowings These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology. ==== See also ==== augustus Calendarium Romanum on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la === References === “Augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “Augustus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Old English == === Alternative forms === Agustus === Etymology === From Latin Augustus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɑ.u.ɡus.tus/, [ˈɑ.u.ɣus.tus] === Proper noun === Augustus m the Roman emperor Augustus the month of August ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== See also ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Augustus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.